Welcome to Hypnotherapy Lancaster!
Hypnotherapy Lancaster is a private practice in south Lancaster that offers an outstanding service to adults, older children and teenagers who experience anxiety disorders, behavioural and emotional issues, and family and relationship problems.
What are the benefits of Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is an effective method to treat the discomforts of behavioural, emotional and health problems. Inevitably, the therapeutic changes will restore the client's well-being in both mind and body. These changes also are often reflected in new positive thought patterns and a fresh sense of freedom in making choices and decisions, allowing the client to enjoy a fulfilling and authentic life!
How does Hypnotherapy work?
Hypnotherapy is a goal-directive approach to health that
facilitates changes in behaviour and symptoms, as the client relaxes in the therapy chair and listens to the therapeutic suggestions. This process will achieve a state of deep relaxation in which the client subconsciously accepts the therapist's healing suggestions without engaging in conscious thinking.
After the client has been awakened from the deep relaxation, the unconscious mind will remember the therapeutic healing suggestions in association with the positive feelings. These associations facilitate the desired emotional, physiological and behavioural changes to occur because the unconscious mind will seek to replicate these feelings of relaxation and enjoyment experienced during the deep relaxation.
What is deep relaxation?
Deep relaxation is a naturally occurring phenomenon, and can be compared to daydreaming, wherein we seem not to attend consciously to our immediate environment. Most importantly, during the deep relaxation the client will remain in control and maintain willpower.
What is Analytic Hypnotherapy?
Analytic hypnotherapy is based on the assumption that behavioural and emotional problems are triggered by a root cause in the past. These triggering past events remain however completely or partly unconscious within the clients' conscious awareness. The gentle uncovering of these unconscious triggers allows the client to clarify and to let go of the past events, and consequently to develop more efficient and appropriate emotional and behavioural responses.
What are Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Hypnotherapy?
Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Hypnotherapy are therapeutic approaches based on the principle that behavioural, emotional and health problems do not stem from disturbing past events (e.g., childhood trauma), but from negative self-beliefs formed around these events (Ellis, 1962). These dysfunctional self-beliefs are similar to negative self-fulfilling prophecies, and thus sabotage achievement and fulfillment of the client's goals and needs. Consequently, the aim of cognitive approaches is to uncover these underlying negative self-beliefs in order to develop a more positive and helpful self-philosophy, and subsequently to create and maintain a happy and successful life.
